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. >> reporter: in fact, criticizing the inaction of congress has become a key part of the obama re-election strategy. he first laid out the theme last october, pushing his jobs bill. >> the question then is, will congress do something? if congress does something, then i can't run against a do- nothing congress. if congress does nothing, then it's not a matter of me running against them. i think the american people will run them out of town because they are frustrated, and they know we need to do something big and something bold. >> reporter: the confrontation pits the president squarely against republicans, who now control the house and have the votes to block his proposals in the senate. they went toe to toe with mr. obama last summer over raising the federal debt ceiling. and later, over extending the payroll tax break and long-term unemployment benefits. those measures passed, but much of the rest of the president's agenda has languished. and the battles have taken a toll on congress' public approval rating. it stood at just 13% in a recent "new york times"-cbs news poll. the senate's de
. >> reporter: in fact, criticizing the inaction of congress has become a key part of the obama re-election strategy. he first laid out the theme last october, pushing his jobs bill. >> the question then is, will congress do something? if congress does something, then i can't run against a do- nothing congress. if congress does nothing, then it's not a matter of me running against them. i think the american people will run them out of town because they are frustrated, and they know...
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to make sure that we have the best chance to win this election, and the best chance to win this election is to nominate a conservative to go up against barack obama, who can take him >> suarez: from there, it was off to puerto rico, ahead of the primary there on sunday, with 23 delegates at stake. in san juan, santorum argued again thatt's now between romney and himself. romney had sounded confident yesterday, on cnn, before learning that he finished third in both alabama and mississippi. >> senator santorum is at the desperate end of his campaign and is trying in some way to boost his prospects. >> some who are conservative may not be this my cam many but they will be when i face the nominee and face barack obama. and the campaign issued a public memo thasays while rick santorum is taking a victory lap after alabama and mississippi, the fact remains that nothing has changed or advanced his chances of getting the republican nomination. in fact, despite santorum's victories on tuesday, it was romney who took away the most delegates from the day's contests. according to the associated pres
to make sure that we have the best chance to win this election, and the best chance to win this election is to nominate a conservative to go up against barack obama, who can take him >> suarez: from there, it was off to puerto rico, ahead of the primary there on sunday, with 23 delegates at stake. in san juan, santorum argued again thatt's now between romney and himself. romney had sounded confident yesterday, on cnn, before learning that he finished third in both alabama and mississippi....
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does elect ability mean me, are you electable if you are me. or are there a set of qualities people should be looking for. or is it just, i see on a good day i might be able to beat barack obama, what does it mean? >> i proven track record that speaks to leadership, the kind of leadership that allow its you to coalesce enough support to succeed in electoral politics. because at the end of the day, the math has to work for you to win an election, to be leblt able. you've got to actually convince some people who voted for barack obama last time to vote for you. >> ifill: does that mean you consider yourself a moderate, someone who could appeal to people like that? >> it means i have crosscutting appeal. if you look at my record t would speak to being a consistent conservative. >> ifill: wait a second, why not call yourself a moderate, crosscutting apeal s that a bad word? >> well, we get folks from a lot of different political spectrums. i don't think it's a bad word at all. i have a hard time with people putting labels on your forehead. i think
does elect ability mean me, are you electable if you are me. or are there a set of qualities people should be looking for. or is it just, i see on a good day i might be able to beat barack obama, what does it mean? >> i proven track record that speaks to leadership, the kind of leadership that allow its you to coalesce enough support to succeed in electoral politics. because at the end of the day, the math has to work for you to win an election, to be leblt able. you've got to actually...
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. >> warner: kwame holman reports on a key component of president obama's re-election strategy highlighting the political gridlock in washington. >> president obama says this 112th congress-- as divided and partisan as it is-- should work with him on behalf of the american people. >> brown: ray suarez looks at today's jobs problem and the future role of manufacturing. >> warner: and, we have a conversation with veteran reporter tom edsall about the political landscape in a time of scarce resources. >> the fight now is a much more serious and brutal fight over basically sxhix and how do you cut up a smaller and smaller part? >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: military to make it smaller but stronger, more tech-savvy and more mobile. to that end, some parts of the here of a hard choice that you made and a risk that now is there. >> i'll give you an example that is highlighted in the document that we released today. it's an unmanned aerial vehicle, it's one we hope to have, we hope to retain. it's one of these weapons sy
. >> warner: kwame holman reports on a key component of president obama's re-election strategy highlighting the political gridlock in washington. >> president obama says this 112th congress-- as divided and partisan as it is-- should work with him on behalf of the american people. >> brown: ray suarez looks at today's jobs problem and the future role of manufacturing. >> warner: and, we have a conversation with veteran reporter tom edsall about the political landscape in...
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. >> warner: kwame holman reports on a key component of president obama's re-election strategy highlighting the political gridlock in washington. >> president obama says this 112th congress-- as divided and partisan as it is-- should work with him on behalf of the american people. >> brown: ray suarez looks at today's jobs problem and the future role of manufacturing. >> warner: and, we have a conversation with veteran reporter tom edsall about the political landscape in a time of scarce resources. >> the fight now is a much more serious and brutal fight over basically sxhix and how do you cut up a smaller and smaller part? >> bro: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy productive life. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank y
. >> warner: kwame holman reports on a key component of president obama's re-election strategy highlighting the political gridlock in washington. >> president obama says this 112th congress-- as divided and partisan as it is-- should work with him on behalf of the american people. >> brown: ray suarez looks at today's jobs problem and the future role of manufacturing. >> warner: and, we have a conversation with veteran reporter tom edsall about the political landscape in...
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mom knee against barack obama, and i know what weighs for our candidate on the other, waits for our candidate and i know the president obama is gearing one their own super pac so we need a battle-tested candidate. >> i want to ask you, matt strong, about the fact that iowa voters seem to have been so undecided for so long in this election year, how do you explain that and to what extent does that either strengthen or weaken whoever wins or comes in close coming out of iowa? >> yes, judy, i think there were a couple of things, it was a very unusual caucus campaign because the candidates did not do the amount of retailing politicking we are used to in iowa, i there at this debates had something to do that, we talk about the extensive television advertising, one reason it was such a late-breaking opportunity here, they wanted to see the candidates up close in question and ask the tough questions we are used to do every four or eight years, secondarily, you know, i just think at the end of the day, iowa republicans want to do two things, they want to find a candidate to beat barack obam
mom knee against barack obama, and i know what weighs for our candidate on the other, waits for our candidate and i know the president obama is gearing one their own super pac so we need a battle-tested candidate. >> i want to ask you, matt strong, about the fact that iowa voters seem to have been so undecided for so long in this election year, how do you explain that and to what extent does that either strengthen or weaken whoever wins or comes in close coming out of iowa? >> yes,...
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he feels that the last three years under the obama administration have taken the country down the wrong path and that's basically his general argument, elect me and we will restore the country to its greatness. >> woodruff: so quickly, to sum up, gwen, how do we look for new hampshire to be different from what we saw in iowa and just in the way these candidates are now campaigning and getting their message out? >> well, judy, if you want to sum it up. listen to former governor, new hampshire governor, john sununu, former white house chief of staff from years ago. he came out today to introduce mitt romney and john mccain and he said the same two words over and over again. he said "mitt romney is conservative and a leader. when he talks about his conservatism it's a way of telling the people who might lean toward rick santorum not to get off the bus and when he says he's a leader it's a way of turning the focus to president obama which is really all he wants to talk about." >> woodruff: on that point we'll leave it. on that, thank you both. >> brown: still to come on the "newshour": a ga
he feels that the last three years under the obama administration have taken the country down the wrong path and that's basically his general argument, elect me and we will restore the country to its greatness. >> woodruff: so quickly, to sum up, gwen, how do we look for new hampshire to be different from what we saw in iowa and just in the way these candidates are now campaigning and getting their message out? >> well, judy, if you want to sum it up. listen to former governor, new...
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romney's case is i'm the most electable and the one best able to beat barack obama. i have that business experience. he's looking at moderate republicans and there are a number of those in iowa. he's also trying to pick up a more conservative vote. ron paul's argument hasn't changed either. he's saying he wants radical change. he wants to cut the budget a trillion dollars the first year he's in office. he wants to bring all the troops home from overseas. for rick santorum who is really just now getting the kind of audience he would have loved to have had for a number of months he's saying i'm an authentic conservative but i'm also able to work with people across the aisle, with democrats. all three of them are in a way making the same argument but just reinforcing them. >> ifill: we keep hearing about undecided, uncommitted voters at the end. are they undecided truely? or are they just not in love with the person they agreed to support? >> woodruff: i think it's a mixture, gwen. i think truly people, a lot of voters i've spoken to, i think you and i talked earlier to
romney's case is i'm the most electable and the one best able to beat barack obama. i have that business experience. he's looking at moderate republicans and there are a number of those in iowa. he's also trying to pick up a more conservative vote. ron paul's argument hasn't changed either. he's saying he wants radical change. he wants to cut the budget a trillion dollars the first year he's in office. he wants to bring all the troops home from overseas. for rick santorum who is really just now...
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because there will be plenty of time for president obama to engage in the election. right now because of the support he has within his own party, he doesn't have a primary contest. that's happening on the other side in the republican party. he's able to do his job. you know, he didn't run and wasn't elected to the presidency just so he could run again. he ran because he saw a need to change the direction of this country because the middle class was being squeezed. he saw even before the recession, gwen, as you know, middle class saw its incomes either stagnating or declining while the very wealthiest americans saw their share of the pie grow substantially larger. we need to address the challenges that our economy is facing right now. we need to do it together. he will call on congress to work with him. he will say that where he can act administratively using his executive authority to move our economy along, to help it grow, he'll do that as well. >> ifill: you talk about acting administratively, i assume that means without congressional endorsement. is that going to
because there will be plenty of time for president obama to engage in the election. right now because of the support he has within his own party, he doesn't have a primary contest. that's happening on the other side in the republican party. he's able to do his job. you know, he didn't run and wasn't elected to the presidency just so he could run again. he ran because he saw a need to change the direction of this country because the middle class was being squeezed. he saw even before the...
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>> it's fairly unusual to have so many so quickly right after another election ends. remember dough dealt with some of this after 2008 when obama was going to the senate a lot to appoint people to his cabinet, dealing with a lot of fallout then as well. sometimes it happens, when president switching terms but it's very rare to have this much political activity so soon after november 2012. >> ifill: thank you both very much. tomorrow we'll talk with christina about shifting political landscape in illinois. south carolina again and new jersey. >> brown: next, the story of a catholic priest's journey as a doctor ministering through 25 years of haiti's recent history. fred de sam lazaro has the latest in our "agents for change" series. a version of this report aired on the pbs program, "religion and ethics newsweekly." >> brown: for 25 years, father rick, defined and redefined through crisis and even catastrophe. he came to this impoverished caribbean nation in 1987 after a few years in mexico and honduras to expand the mission of his catholic religious order. >> we came
>> it's fairly unusual to have so many so quickly right after another election ends. remember dough dealt with some of this after 2008 when obama was going to the senate a lot to appoint people to his cabinet, dealing with a lot of fallout then as well. sometimes it happens, when president switching terms but it's very rare to have this much political activity so soon after november 2012. >> ifill: thank you both very much. tomorrow we'll talk with christina about shifting political...
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obama might look to norfolk, where they have been having those conversations for years. >> as we get more high tides and tides seem to get higher and we get more of these storms and they seem to come with a little more fury we get more and more water in our city as the days go by, so we are taking it very seriously. we talk about it nearly monthly. and we are planning for it. >> reporter: mayor paul fraim, a democrat, has been leading the charge and was the first elected official in the country to say parts of his city might not be livable in 15 years. >> we are raising homes. we are raising roads. but we are also retreating very slowly from some of the shoreline so we don't spend money raising houses so that when the next storm comes through they will be damaged again. >> reporter: mr. obama won the battleground state of virginia 51% to 48% over mitt romney. his victory was helped by taking 56% of the vote in the states southeast tidewater region that is home to norfolk. here, where streets like this are frequently under water, some people are hoping the election means political deb
obama might look to norfolk, where they have been having those conversations for years. >> as we get more high tides and tides seem to get higher and we get more of these storms and they seem to come with a little more fury we get more and more water in our city as the days go by, so we are taking it very seriously. we talk about it nearly monthly. and we are planning for it. >> reporter: mayor paul fraim, a democrat, has been leading the charge and was the first elected official in...
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bill clinton wins re-election by a big margin. 2008 we nominated a moderate. barack obama wins. why would anybody in the establishment think that a massachusetts moderate, which is a liberal by republican standards, pro abortion, pro gun control, pro tax increase, pro gay rights-- why would they think that he's going to be able to debate barack obama? >> brown: the head of a pro gingrich group, rick tyler, went further calling romney, quote, despicable and disgraceful. with the vitriol flying, late polls gave romney a double-digit lead. a survey of likely republican voters in florida showed him with a 14-point advantage. 43 to 29%. gingrich insisted he was closing the gap, but romney told report hes, quote, you can sense it's coming our way. elsewhere former pennsylvania senator rick santorum returned to campaigning today in missouri. he canceled weekend appearances in florida after his three-year-old daughter was hospitalized with pneumonia. and texas congressman ron paul kept his focus on states holding february caucuses where he's expected to perform better. but much of the f
bill clinton wins re-election by a big margin. 2008 we nominated a moderate. barack obama wins. why would anybody in the establishment think that a massachusetts moderate, which is a liberal by republican standards, pro abortion, pro gun control, pro tax increase, pro gay rights-- why would they think that he's going to be able to debate barack obama? >> brown: the head of a pro gingrich group, rick tyler, went further calling romney, quote, despicable and disgraceful. with the vitriol...
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but the obama re-election team did wade into the bain debate, with a memo that said: meanwhile, as the republican contenders gauged how to blunt romney's momentum, social coervative leaders planned to meet in texas this weekend to talk about uniting behind someone other than romney. late today, a federal judge in virginia refused to add four of the republicans-- perry, gingrich, santorum and huntsman- - to the primary ballot in virginia. he ruled they did not submit the required number of signatures on petitions. >> suarez: still to come on the "newshour": new presidential authority; fighting fatal cancers; inside the fed and shields and brooks. but first, the other news of the day. here's kwame holman. >> holman: there was new fallout today from a video that appears to show u.s. marines urinating on dead taliban fighters in afghanistan. officials said investigators have identified and interviewed the four enlisted marines seen on the video and all are still in the service. and the marine commandant general james amos named a three-star general to oversee the case. a fresh outpouring o
but the obama re-election team did wade into the bain debate, with a memo that said: meanwhile, as the republican contenders gauged how to blunt romney's momentum, social coervative leaders planned to meet in texas this weekend to talk about uniting behind someone other than romney. late today, a federal judge in virginia refused to add four of the republicans-- perry, gingrich, santorum and huntsman- - to the primary ballot in virginia. he ruled they did not submit the required number of...
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rallies and speeches across the state to draw crystal clear contrast with each other and with president obama. the president's approval rating stands at 44% here, and romney-- still seen as most able to win a general election-- is counting on that unhappiness. >> you have a president who is comfortable with trillion-dollar deficits. we've never seen these until he's come along. he's put together almost as much public debt as all the previous presidents combined. >> are you going to compromise? are you going to vote for someone who can win? or are you going to vote for someone who is right for america? >> it must be a lot more exciting to be involved in a campaign that really believes in something. like our constitution. that's a pretty good belief. ( cheers and applause ) >> we've got to bring conservatives together in order to stop him. >> ifill: the university of south carolina's bob oldendick says romney's biggest stumble may have come when he admitted earlier this week that he paid a 15% tax rate in 2010, and said he did not earn much from public speaking. "not much" turned out to be more
rallies and speeches across the state to draw crystal clear contrast with each other and with president obama. the president's approval rating stands at 44% here, and romney-- still seen as most able to win a general election-- is counting on that unhappiness. >> you have a president who is comfortable with trillion-dollar deficits. we've never seen these until he's come along. he's put together almost as much public debt as all the previous presidents combined. >> are you going to...
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pac supporting president obama, right? >> absolutely. they've already run some ads against mitt romney which made news because they seemed to make the pick of the republican nominee. >> ifill: that's who they've chosen to pick the fight with. we saw a pew study today that showed more than half of americans are aware now of campaign finance. usually not a very accessible topic. all of a sudden they're aware of this. most of the people, two-thirds of those people think it's a neck tiff. is this a negative in. >> the super pacs are a positive because they actually increase the disclosure in the system. i don't think most americans appreciate that. i think if you did a poll to figure out how many people understand that super pacs have to identify your donors, you would find most people don't understand that. it's a net-plus to the system if you believe in disclosure. >> ifill: is it a net-plus? >> if you think... if you believe that unlimited amounts of money by individuals, corporations and labor unions that are actually not
pac supporting president obama, right? >> absolutely. they've already run some ads against mitt romney which made news because they seemed to make the pick of the republican nominee. >> ifill: that's who they've chosen to pick the fight with. we saw a pew study today that showed more than half of americans are aware now of campaign finance. usually not a very accessible topic. all of a sudden they're aware of this. most of the people, two-thirds of those people think it's a neck...